Ferrari technical boss Ross Brown has slammed McLaren for their attitude after the Michael Schumacher - David Coulthard incident during the last Grand Prix in Belgium.

"Most of the rhetoric has been coming from McLaren. You can see why. They thought they had it sewn up at the first race, so they've got to explain why Ferrari has become competitive."

He also added: "It's not a gentleman's sport and hasn't been for a long time. I'd love for it to be different, for us to show fair respect to each but I don't think it will ever be any different when you get a close title race."

Alexander Wurz organised a meeting with the two drivers after the tests at Monza last week but only Coulthard showed up. Schumacher said there was not enough time to go into the matter completely. Now both teams hope to resolve things before qualifying.